Description

The Dual Bachelor's in Law and Business Administration and Management aims to form versatile professionals capable of functioning efficiently in legal and business environments. Its joint design affords the acquisition of two academic specialties, law and business administration, that are highly complementary. Likewise, it comprehensively trains its students, and always encourages critical and innovative thinking. This education is complete with national and international mobility available to its students through various exchange programs with other universities (Erasmus/Séneca, Leonardo, SICUE, etc.) in addition to agreements with numerous businesses.

Instruction for this dual bachelor's is given in the classroom during daytime hours. This five-year program has 60 student places available.

Students who complete the Law and Business Administration and Management program are conferred two UMH undergraduate degrees, the Bachelor's in Law and the Bachelor's in Business Administration and Management.

Career opportunities

Regulated profession: No

Bachelor's in Law

1. PRIVATE SECTOR (Professional practice):- Professional practice of law with the possibility of working for large law firms.- Professional practice as a court attorney.- Private legal consulting: tax, labor, administrative, commercial.- Employment in the financial market sector (banking, insurance, stock market).- Legal department of businesses.- Human resources departments.- Employment management, social and labor consulting in labor unions, and services of employment, local development, and employment promotion.- General international professional practice, and specifically within the European Union, both by incorporation at the civil service level as well as various international institutions such as the OHIM (with an office in Alicante), UN, ILO, and UNESCO. Community and international law specialists are ever more in demand, and management of community initiative programs is a growing area.

2. ACCESS TO THE CIVIL SERVICE CORPS. CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION:Legal career:- Judges, magistrates, and prosecuting attorneys.- Law clerks.- Armed forces legal bodies.Attorney corps for high state advisory bodies: - Court attorneys.- Council of State attorneys.- Attorneys for the Directorate General of Registers and Notaries. - Attorneys for the Court of Accounts. State administration expert attorneys:- State attorney corps.- Ministry attorneys.- Diplomatic corps.State administration technical corps:- General technical corps.- Special technical corps.- Labor inspectors.- Tax inspectors.Civil servants for local governments and autonomous bodies:- General administration technicians and attorneys for local governments.- Secretaries, comptrollers.- General administration corps of autonomous communities.Civil servant corps not belonging to the central government:- Transfer agents and brokers.- Notaries.- Property registrars.

Bachelor's in Business Administration and Management

The career opportunities that the Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration and Management offers are numerous, varied, and they are especially related with middle and upper levels of management in any type of organization, even including facilitating self-employment through entrepreneurship. Next, following several criteria, many of the career opportunities are listed:1) By offering entity: businesses of all types: agricultural, industrial, and service sectors; auditing, consulting, banking, financial and insurance institutions; academies, educational, training, and research centers; public administrations: local, regional, national, and international organizations in all fields and on all scales, some specific; educational and research institutions on secondary, vocational, and university levels; nonprofit organizations: associations, foundations, NGOs, etc.; self-employment.2) By the nature of the work: direction and management; accounting, tax, and information systems auditing; financial, accounting, and budget management of businesses; feasibility plans; application of information technology; production, expense, and investment studies; foreign trade and prospective markets; personnel, social security, and payroll management; tax consulting; judicial expertise and intervention in bankruptcy proceedings; bank management; public administration management; education.

In addition to the career opportunities that each undergraduate program provides separately, this dual degree further qualifies its graduates to perform in positions of great responsibility. These are found in both the public (access to and direction of the highest levels of civil service) and private sectors (business, private and investment banking, strategic consulting, auditing, consultancy, national and multinational law firms).

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Curriculum

ECTS credits: 366

Core

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Electives

External internships

Final Degree Project

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Design

This program is not the result of a new curriculum; instead, its specific curriculum contains the academic requirements from both individual programs. It neither modifies the verified reports of either program. The Dual Bachelor's in Law and Business Administration and Management is comprised of 366 ECTS credits distributed throughout five academic years, each consisting of two semesters with between 34.5 and 37.5 course credits given in each. There are two final degree projects, one in the field of law, and another in the field of business administration and management. The credits that correspond to the transversal and professional competencies modules from each individual program will be considered completed through the acquisition of the skills in the courses from the other program.

Students who complete this program's curriculum will be conferred two UMH undergraduate degrees (Law and Business Administration and Management). The university will ensure that the requirements for each are fulfilled.

Competencies

Bachelor's in Law

General competencies

Capacity for planning, organizing, directing, and controlling systems and processes within a framework that guarantees respect for values, rights and basic principles of the legal system, business competitiveness, protection and conservation of the environment, and sustainable development.

Skills for the efficient application of tools that lead to resolving problems.

Capability for developing new lines, processes, projects, and products.

Critical and analytical skills.

Capacity for evaluating, optimizing, and comparing criteria in decision making.

Ability to communicate in formal, graphic, and symbolic styles, as well as with oral and written forms of expression.

Manage and coordinate people.

Ability to work with multidisciplinary and multicultural teams.

Ability to update knowledge.

Capacity to consolidate, expand, and integrate knowledge.

Capacity to identify, interpret, formulate, and resolve problems and situations.

Ability to use the tools and instruments necessary for properly observing the systems under study.

Proper knowledge about government, businesses, institutions, public organisms and organizations in general, regulations, and procedures necessary for working and performing other activities.

Disposition for methodologies and efficient self-learning skills to adapt to and update new knowledge and scientific advances, as well as to changing needs in order to adopt an aptitude for innovation and creativity in the profession.

Specific competencies

Acquire a critical awareness in the analysis of the legal system.

Master the institutional system and the complex form of producing law at its different levels: local, autonomous, national, European, and international.

Develop and structure regulations.

Understand and apply basic principles of legal argument.

Understand the legal position of citizens in their relations with government, and in general with public authorities.

Know and understand how an enterprise operates as a system, its main functional areas, and the impact of commercial, labor, and tax regulations on its creation and development.

Know the main public legal institutions.

Interpret accounting information properly and understand the relationship between accounting and the different areas of the legal system.

Acquire the basic knowledge about the theoretical principals and tools of economics and be able to reason in economic terms.

Be capable of finding and managing economic information.

Master the processes of mediation and negotiation.

Awareness about the importance of law as a regulatory system of social relations.

Obtain the perception of the unitary nature of the legal system and the necessary interdisciplinary vision of legal problems.

Interpret constitutional principles and values as a working tool in the implementation of Spanish, EU, and international legislation.

Manage legal sources (laws, jurisprudence, doctrinal).

Understand and know the function of various governmental agencies and know how to relate properly with them.

Read and interpret legal texts.

Act upon various Spanish, EU, and international jurisdictional orders.

Know the primary private legal institutions.

Manage and advise businesses, associations, and other entities from a legal perspective.

Know the administrative process, the roles upper management plays, and the phases in the business creation process.

Use communication skills to express oneself properly before a specialized audience.

Draft legal documents.

Understand and apply basic principles of ethics linked to the legal profession.

Understand the historical character of law and know the origin and evolution of legal systems.

Bachelor's in Business Administration and Management

General competencies

Capacity to identify, interpret, formulate, and resolve basic problems within the branch of social and legal sciences.

Ability to use the tools and instruments necessary for properly observing the systems under study.

Ability to identify the structure of governments, businesses, institutions, public organisms and organizations in general, as well as for interpreting the regulations and procedures necessary for carrying out projects and other activities.

Leadership/coordination of human resources for the implementation of projects.

Ability to work with multidisciplinary and multicultural teams.

Ability to update knowledge within the branch of social and legal sciences.

Capacity to consolidate, expand, and integrate fundamental knowledge within the branch of social and legal sciences.

Disposition for methodologies and efficient self-learning skills to adapt to and update new knowledge and scientific advances, as well as to changing needs in order to adopt an aptitude for innovation and creativity in the profession.

Capacity for planning, organizing, directing, and controlling systems and processes within a framework that guarantee respect for the values, rights and basic principles of the legal system, business competitiveness, protection and conservation of the environment, and sustainable development in the corresponding field.

Ability to implement efficient tools for troubleshooting within the branch of social and legal sciences.

Capacity to innovate in the development of new lines, processes, projects, and products.

Critical and analytical skills in the relevant specialty area.

Capacity for evaluating, optimizing, and comparing criteria in decision making.

Ability to communicate in formal, graphic, and symbolic styles, as well as with oral and written forms of expression.

Specific competencies

Capacity to identify and initiate entrepreneurial and professional initiatives.

Ability to design and develop a strategic management process.

Ability to interpret the fundamentals of law, with a special emphasis on the commercial, labor, and tax areas, in order to apply them to business.

Capacity to analyze general problems within the scope of tax law.

Ability to relate knowledge about basic economic theories and institutions.

Ability to analyze general problems within the field of microeconomics and macroeconomics.

Capacity to perceive and value the importance of new technologies within the business environment and its economic surroundings.

Ability to analyze the relationship between business and its economic environment, distinguishing between the functional areas of production, investment, financing, and marketing, as well as accounting techniques to obtain the financial situation, with special emphasis on small- and medium-sized businesses.

Capacity to relate knowledge about the operation and registration of business activities, especially in cases of small- and medium-sized businesses.

Capacity to develop and manage the design process and project management.

Ability to manage and administer small businesses.

Ability to integrate into any functional area (in a business or large organization), performing management tasks with ease.

Capacity to identify and evaluate the impact of economic events on enterprises.

Capacity to use and interpret business data and information for specialized reporting and decision making.

Capacity for quantitative problem solving.

Capacity to analyze general problems in the field of business and markets.

Ability to manage and allocate resources appropriately.

Final project

Objectives

Access and Admissions

Access

INCOMING STUDENT PROFILEStudents in the Dual Bachelor's in Law and Business Administration and Management program must, in addition to their interest in economic and business realities, possess certain characteristics and qualities linked to concerns and proactive attitudes with respect to everything related with the correct organization of social relations within the framework of social and democratic rule of law; a capacity for reading, comprehension, and analysis of legal texts; certain abilities with numerical issues, in addition to the application of laws; communication skills and an interest in their cultivation and improvement; an inclination to work on teams and collaboratively. Moreover, an entrepreneurial, dynamic, and imaginative attitude is also desirable for dealing with complex situations.